Men transport a coffin whilst riding a motorbike, three days after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake in La Libertad, Negros Oriental, Philippines on Feb. 9, 2012.

More than 1,000 aftershocks have been recorded by the Philippine Institute for Volcanology and Seismology since an earthquake struck on Monday, The European Pressphoto Agency reports. The strongest measured magnitude 6.2.

Thousands of residents in affected areas are sleeping outside for fear that their houses would collapse in the aftershocks. Some hospitals have also moved patients outdoors overnight.